Matt Jones

Ubuntu Look'n'Feel Competition

Just over a month ago, I read that Ubuntu were having a competition
to redesign their website. So, with a few ideas in my head
about what it could look like, I set about producing a design
for it.

I’d done a bit with work with Plone - the content management system
they’re using - before, so I tried to keep many of the
existing page elements the same to make adding the skin as
easy as possible while sprucing the design up a bit in the
process.

I got an email from Jeff Waugh this
morning saying that they couldn’t pick an outright winner,
but mine was one of three joint
winning entries, and they’ve decided to use elements of
all three in the final design. I can’t recall ever having
entered a competition before - even the ones on the back
Rice Krispies boxes - so I’m rather pleased to be a
winner in one.